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Under US/Western free trade, provisions exclude fairness, the US/Peru deal one of many examples, its one-sided rules harming indigenous people gravely. By opening their land to extractive mining, oil exploration and logging, besides agribusiness biofuel plantations, poor Peruvians are entirely left out.
As a result, they reacted by protesting against "a conspiracy afoot to (exploit their land and keep them) from making use of (their) natural wealth." In response, government forces responded, killing around two dozen and wounding 100 more. As public opposition continues, state-sponsored terrorism confronts it, the way repressive states always operate, regional militaries taught at the School of the Americas (SOA), now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the new name leaving SOA's school of assassins mission unchanged.
(9) Human Rights Abuses Continue in Palestine
For decades they've included:
-- violence;
-- regular incursions;
-- home invasions and demolitions;
-- land and resource theft;
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